{"id":294,"date":"2013-06-05T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2013-06-05T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:44:45","slug":"causative-sentences-genki-ii-chapter-22","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/grammar-index\/genki-i-ii-grammar-index\/causative-sentences-genki-ii-chapter-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Causative sentences ( Genki II Chapter 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>Causative Sentences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you use the causative form of a verb, you can describe who makes someone do something, and who lets someone do something.<\/p>\n<p>Forming causative verbs:<\/p>\n<p><em>ru-<\/em>verbs: Drop the\u00a0<em>-ru<\/em>\u00a0and add<em>\u00a0-sase-ru<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u98df\u3079\u308b -&gt; \u98df\u3079\u3055\u305b\u308b<\/p>\n<p><em>u-<\/em>verbs: Drop the &#8211;<em>u<\/em>\u00a0and add\u00a0<em>-ase-ru.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u306f\u306a\u3059 -&gt; \u306f\u306a\u3055\u305b\u308b<\/p>\n<p>irregular verbs:<\/p>\n<p>\u3059\u308b -&gt; \u3055\u305b\u308b<\/p>\n<p>\u304f\u308b -&gt; \u3053\u3055\u305b\u308b<\/p>\n<p>The basic strusture of a causative sentence is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u305b\u3093\u305b\u3044\u306f\u304c\u304f\u305b\u3044\u306b\u304b\u3044\u308f\u3092\u304a\u307c\u3048\u3055\u305b\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>(dirctor)\u306f (cast)\u306b (action).<\/p>\n<p>The professor made the students memorize the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The director decides what is allowed and what is to be done. Marked with \u306f or \u304c.<\/p>\n<p>The cast preforms the action. Usually goes with \u306b.<\/p>\n<p>The action is described with a causative form of a verb.<\/p>\n<p>There are two meanings of the causative form. Any causative verb can be interpreted either as &#8220;make sombody do&#8221; or &#8220;let somebody do&#8221;. Context can be used to determine which meaning is correct.<\/p>\n<p>If the helping verb \u3066\u3042\u3052\u308b, \u3066\u304f\u308c\u308b\u3000or\u3000\u3066\u3082\u3089\u3046 follows a causative verb, you can assume in almost all cases that it is a &#8220;let&#8221; causative verb.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Causative Sentences When you use the causative form of a verb, you can describe who makes someone do something, and who lets someone do something. Forming causative verbs: ru-verbs: Drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}